Our podcast got blocked on Twitter by Dan Slott! This isn’t something I take any pride in, so this isn’t like some kind of stupid brag. I’ve seen folks who take getting blocked by a famous person as a badge of honor, and that has never ever been our goal. I’m actually mildly bothered by this! Mostly because I have no idea what we have … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Poison Ivy & Harley Quinn
Pink or GTFO. Or the man-kini girdle.. COSMIC BOY (Rokk Krinn, aka Polestar)Silver Age Cosmic Boy:-One of the only pink-clad male superheroes ever, Cosmic Boy’s as old as they come on the Legion, debuting alongside Lightning Lad & Saturn Girl. Since then, he’s pretty much been the resolute leader of the squad, leading the team more often than not (he’s effectly the “Cyclops” of the … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Cosmic Boy & Magnetic Lad
LIGHTNING LAD (Garth Ranzz) Silver Age Lightning Lad:-Lightning Lad is a charter member of the Legion, and one of it’s all-time most important members. Kinda hard to think of a time when “Electrical Guy” WASN’T one of the more common super-powers in comics, but there it is, I think he’s one of the very first. He’s also had kind of an iffy place in Legion history, dying … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Lightning Lad & Saturn Girl
Now that I’ve started off with mini-bios of Superboy & Supergirl, here’s their Post-Crisis stand-ins & successors: Andromeda & Kent Shakespeare! They- they knew what they were doing with the wording and the body language in that last panel, weren’t they? Original Laurel Gand:Andromeda was one of those odd Legionnaires chosen to fill a gap- this gap being Supergirl’s history with the Legion. Introduced as … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Andromeda & Kent Shakespeare
See, I was supposed to have the closings on my house and the house I’m buying this week, but my buyer has run into problems, so everything has been pushed back, probably about a month. In the meantime, the wife and I have already packed up almost all of our non-essential stuff! So I guess I get to live surrounded by cardboard and clutter for … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Batman & The Outsiders
So this obscure fellow is actually an idea Siegel & Shuster came up with a few years later- some would say they based him off of Fawcett Comics’ success with Captain Marvel Jr., but instead of making a sidekick character, they just told the stories of “Superman When He Was a Boy”. He got a whole new supporting cast and became a HUGE deal, earning … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Superboy & Supergirl
Threeboot:The Threeboot era is what really killed the Legion for a lot of people. Not even that it was particularly BAD, but just the fact that fifty years of stories meant NOTHING, yet again- Legion fans had suffered through this once before, and more if you count all the Retcons and “fixes” that just buggered things up further (the origin had been retold about four … Continue reading Jabs Legion Of Superheroes Overview, Part 2
THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: The Legion of Super-Heroes is one of the oldest super-teams in all of comics, and one of its most original ideas. Which is kind of funny, because it was dealt with very off-handedly at first in your typical Superboy adventure. Superboy at the time was basically “The Adventures of Superman when he was a boy!”, and the Legionnaires introduced were just the original … Continue reading Jab’s Reviews: The Legion of Super-Heroes
It’s been a while since I was able to write an article, as the last few weeks have been mayhem. First, I was in beautiful Punta Cana for my sister-in-law’s wedding, and while I was there, my Mac died, so I had to get it fixed upon my return. I’m of two minds on the matter: first of all, thanks to AppleCare, my laptop was … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Tower of Babel
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned more and more about how much I actually really like the character of Superman. For the vast majority of my comic book reading life, I have viewed the big blue boy scout as the apotheosis of boring comic characters. Too powerful, too plain, too unrelatable, and too predictable. I would occasionally read some Superman titles, but if you asked … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Secret Identity
It’s the fourth entry in our series on the contributors’ of SWO Productions’ favorite artists for certain characters, and can you believe we are at number FOUR in the series before we get to The Bat? Arguably the mot popular comic book character of all time–he’s had NINE solo starring movies, another movie in which his name was in the title, two versions of one … Continue reading Our Favorite Batman Artists
What is this, my…third consecutive DC book? And the two before this stretch were both independent books? I know how the internet works! Accusation of anti-Marvel bias is going to kick in any minute now! Actually, throughout my history here, I have taken pride in maintaining something close to a one-to-one ratio of Marvel-to-DC books (with the odd indie books sprinkled in and my whole … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Power Girl
The last time I read a modern comic book that starred Conner Kent, the results were… less than ideal. So less than ideal that I’ve been scared off of reading the ongoing title of one of my favorite characters (Tim Drake: Robin) because the same writer has been at the helm of that series. But things are different now! No longer under the Dark Crisis … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Superboy: Man Of Tomorrow
The weekend is over, and thus my second ever visit to New York Comic Con is in the books! My visit to one of the great comic conventions was planned in a rush less than a month before the show, so I was only able to attend one day this year, Saturday the 14th, but it was a very full day of exploring the Javitts … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2023 Review
I just signed up for the DC Universe Streaming Service! I put this off for a while, but eventually my desire to see if the Young Justice cartoon is as good as I had always heard won out. And when I went to the site to see what all was offered and spied all the comics free to stream? Well, that was the decisive blow. … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Hunter/Prey
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